Curtain-fixture.



Patented Aug. I3, l90l.

J. A. HAMELBACK.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

(Application filed Feb. 26, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB A. ITAMELBAOK, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,584, dated August 13, 1901.

Application filed February 26, 1901. Serial No. 48.959. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB A. HAMELBACK,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Zanesville, in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to curtain-fixtures, and more particularly to that type of windowcurtain holders in'which the roller-brackets slide up and down on guides.

The object of my invention is to simplify the construction and render the means for raising and lowering the roller more reliable and eflicient.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a window fitted with my device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the guidesand its attachments. Fig. 3 is a perspective of one of the brackets: Fig. 4 is a detail of the keeper for securing the curtaincord. Fig. 5 is a detail of thelower end of one of the guides and one of the keepers.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts wherever they occur in the different views of the drawings.

To the inside of a window-frame l, of ordinary construction, I attach guide-strips 2 at their upper ends by screw-eyes or pull-eyscrews 3. These guide-strips are preferably flat and may be conveniently formed from sheet metal having a slight spring temper. Near their upper ends these strips are curved to form ofisets 4, which serve to set the guides away from the window-frame a sufficient distance to permit the roller-brackets to slide thereon. The lower ends of the guides are cut away to form shoulders 2 and a tongue 2". Keepers 5 are provided and firmly seated in the window-frame l, and the tongues 2 are inserted in these keepers by springing the guides. When they are released, the shoulers 2 will bear firmly against the keepers5, and the guides will be slightly bent or bowed up in the center, which action will prevent their sagging toward the frame from use.

An ordinary spring curtain-roller 6 may be used with my improved curtain-fixture, and the brackets 7 7 \for the roller are provided with arms 8 8, having guide-loops 9 9 at their ends. Said guide-loops embrace the guidestrips 2 on opposite sides of the roller-pintle cord is left free.

10. This construction gives stability to the brackets.

As shown, the bracket 7 is formed of a single length of wire of the proper gage, and the pintle-bearing for the roller is formed by a loop 11 in the Wire, the arms 8 8 crossing each other and ext-ending thence to the guidestrips. For the detachable end of the roller the bracket 7 a has a vertically-open hook-bearing 12 for the squared end 13 of. the rollerpintle atthe end where the spring is inclosed. This construction permits the ready detachment of the roller from the brackets. Aside from the open bearing 12 this bracket is substantially like the one 7, liereinbefore described.

Cords 14 1r are attached to the brackets and pass up through the screw-eyes or pulley-screws 3 and down through the guide-eye 15 to a keeper 16 on the window-frame. Thiskeeper 16 has a V-shaped slot therein, which enables the cord to be clamped at any point.

The weight of the roller 6 and the curtain 17 is suflicient to carry them by gravity to the lower ends of the guide-strips when the Hence the cord must be secured to the keeper 16 at any point where it is desired to hold the curtain. The guidestrips extend only to just beyond the center of the window-frame, so that light may be let in at any point above or below the center of the window.

My construction also provides an alternative method of operating my adjustable fixture without the use of a cord. To do this, a series of notches 17 are cut in the inner sides of guides 2. The notches are arranged to lie in pairs in the same horizontal plane. Note-hes 18 are also formed in the shoulders 2, and the tongues 2 are made narrower than the keepers 5. \Vith this construction it becomes a simple matter to set the brackets 7 7 at different positions on the guides 2. All that is necessary is to slide one of the brackets along until one 01": the guide-loops comes opposite one of the notches 17 and engage it therein, and do likewise with the corresponding arm on the other bracket and corresponding notch on the guide. To clamp the brackets in this position, the guides 2 are sprung out in the center to ease up the pressure on the shoulders 2 and the outside notches 18 on the shoulders 2 set to engage the sides 5 of the keepers 5, thus converging the lower ends of the guides 2.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim is- 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of keepers seated in a casing, and flat spring-guides pivoted at their upper ends and having on their lower ends tongues with adjacent notched shoulders, which tongues fit into said keepers with the notched shoulders bearing against the sides thereof, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of keepers seated in a casing,

nesses.

JACOB A. HAMELBACK.

Witnesses:

T. O. FOWLER, A. A. GEORGE 

